We aim is to provide Syrian parents in refugee camps with comprehensible information about trauma and what they can do to support their children.

At the moment, humanitarian aid in refugee camps focuses primarily on meeting the basic needs. The people who live there are no longer in danger, they get some basic food and have a place to sleep. However, they also need help as to overcoming the horrors they experienced and help to start over again. It is very important to say that traumatized children CAN be helped, even in the current difficult living conditions.

All the parents in refugee camps face difficult changes in emotions and behavior of their children. We would like to provide them with professional yet simple information about what they can do to treat trauma in their children (and themselves, too). For this purpose, we are translating into Arabic the book Trauma Proofing Your Kids by P. Levine and M. Kline, written for the parents of traumatized children and caregivers. For those parents who do not have the capacity to read all 271 pages of the book, we are putting together a 40-page handbook, containing the most important information and a picture book presenting the basic principles of working with trauma in pictures provided with a simple text in Arabic.

How can parents help traumatized children?

The books offer information, advice and activities (adapted games and sports) that help children release the grip and energy of trauma.

Our intention is to distribute the above-mentioned materials (1,000 translated books and 10,000 information handbooks, 10,000 picture books) in refugee camps in Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan, in cooperation with local organizations (we would also like to try to initiate a parent group). For camp community leaders, we would also like to provide the relevant minimum trainings.

At present, we are fund-raising particularly for the creation, translating, proofreading and printing of the Picture Book and the additional 10 pages of the Trauma Handbook, the outstanding amount for Trauma Proofing Your Kids, a weeks pilot stay in the refugee camp in Zataari in Jordan and a weeks stay of the whole team in Gaziantep, Turkey. And, this time, we are also fund-raising for some operating costs of our organisation and its capacity building, to make our project sustainable. So far, most of the work has been done on voluntary basis.

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